Kevin Cramer

In the week since President Donald Trump made a plea for unity in his State of the Union address, his call for bipartisan cooperation on major legislative priorities has been undermined — on an almost daily basis — by Trump.

Trump mocked the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee as "Little Adam B. Schiff." He called House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., "a rich woman" who "wants to give all of your money away." He accused Democrats of doing nothing to help young, undocumented immigrants known as "dreamers" and said Democrats do not care about violent MS-13 gang members "pouring into our...

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